Can #AI be controlled? : Corralling the #Digital Beast

The Meat Puppets Podcast

#elevenlabs #speech2speech #runwayml motion brush Martin and Paul go on a wild #AI adventure in this jam-packed episode. They dish all the juicy deets on the #OpenAI saga, give the inside scoop on the latest innovations like Runway's #Motionbrush and #Claude 2.1, and even test out some #AI-powered voice acting with #ElevenLabs. And that's not all - the lads discover potenial #killerrobots over at the Pentagon and somehow find time to poke fun at #Google. It's a rip-roaring ride through the #AI landscape that you won't want to miss. So plug in, sit back, and enjoy the #triumphant #failures of Martin and Paul as they continue their quest to #digitallydisrupt!

Links

Patrick Boyles Take on Open AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjxxFvarg0Y

Q Star

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

Runway Gen 2 Motion Brush https://academy.runwayml.com/gen2/gen2-motion-brush

Comfy UI Stable Diffusion https://www.youtube.com/@sedetweiler

Krita with AI built in through Comfy UI https://www.youtube.com/@NerdyRodent

Orca 2 Released (Microsoft Open Source) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcjccxStdo

Pi 2 Released

https://inflection.ai/inflection-2

Claude 2.1 Release

https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2-1

Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

https://apnews.com/article/us-military-ai-projects-0773b4937801e7a0573f44b57a9a5942

Google Meet https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/22/google-meet-hand-detection-feature/

Pictory AI https://pictory.ai/

ElevenLabs Partners with Pictory AI https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevating-video-content-elevenlabs-partners-with-pictory-ai

Slaughter Bots https://www.wearespace.com/case-studies/slaughterbots/

NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator For DRIVE Sim – Synthetic Data Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaFgNEF82Q

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:16 Discussion on AI News and OpenAI Saga

00:01:35 Exploring AI Tools and Their Iterations

00:01:52 Challenges and Solutions in AI for Music and Pictures

00:02:57 Highlighting a YouTube Channel - Patrick Boyle

00:05:09 Q Star - What is it and does it matter

00:11:05 Exploring AI Tools: Runway and Gen2

00:14:22 Discussion on AI Tools: Comfy UI

00:19:42 Discussion on AI Tools: Orca 2 and Claude 2.1

00:27:38 Discussion on Pentagon's AI Initiatives

00:31:42 Google's Earth Shattering AI Announcement

00:35:41 Pictori AI: Creating Video Out of Text

00:36:2 Introduction to 11 Labs' Speech to Speech

00:37:00 Testing 11 Labs' Speech to Speech

00:39:02 Creating an Advert with 11 Labs

00:39:49 Testing Different Voices with 11 Labs

00:48:36 Final Thoughts on 11 Labs

00:55:19 Upcoming Events and Conclusion

Disclaimer

The Meat Puppets podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Our hosts and guests are experienced professionals but they are not experts in law, AI or any topics discussed on the show. Listeners should not construe their personal opinions as professional legal advice. All business decisions should be made based on independent research and assessment of risks. While delivered with good humour, the hosts make no guarantees about accuracy of any content in this podcast. Listen at your own discretion!

Equipment Used

Prices as of Aug 2023 - No, we don’t get any money from any of these link, we’re just sharing what we use to make the show - As ever, visit external links at your own risk!

• Rode PodMic USB - £199 https://rode.com/en/microphones/usb/podmic-usb
• Any Phone, Computer or Tablet with USBC and wireless / mobile internet £200 upwards
• Sennheiser HD 25 Headphone £120 (Although any will do really - we’re just a bit snobby) - https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/on-ear-dj-headphone-hd25

SAAS SERVICES USED

• RedCircle £FREE - Currently on the free tier - https://redcircle.com/
• ChatGPT £FREE/20/month (although we’re using it less and less) https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
• Claude 2 £FREE https://claude.ai/
• Squadcast £FREE with Descript
• Google Apps £FREE/5/Month/per user https://workspace.google.com/
• DeScript £FREE/20/Month (Free would be fine) https://www.descript.com/
• Notion £FREE/$10 per user per month https://www.notion.so/